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The fact that Peles and Bublitz and Ettredge find lower lives for durables (that have strong cyclical components) than for nondurables is indicative of this possibility. From the perspective of investment only the positive effects should be counted. At the same time, advertising that is intended to have only short-run benefits for the advertiser should not be counted as investment. It thus seems appropriate to consider that some fraction of advertising be considered investment. The Hall study gives a point estimate of advertising’s impact on market value being about one-third, implying that one-third of advertising is being treated by equity holders as a capital expenditure and not a current expense.

Copy. 53 Coefficients significant at the 10 % level in bold. 00 are not difference GMM with a t-3 lag for the instruments. However, the non-significant coefficient for tangible capital highlights the sensitivity of results using instruments. The estimated contribution of labour is well above the previous estimations and should be considered carefully. Intangible capital again has a large and significant positive contribution. The test for constant returns to scale concludes on the positive. Following, we estimated functions detailing each intangible asset individually.

The third and fourth column shows the second variable and its best fitted function. The fifth column displays the p-value of the likelihood test for interaction between the two variables (first and third columns in the table). The table points toward several non-linear functions. Since the variables take only positive variables a power of À1 or À2 indicates a decreasing effect which tends to 0, the latter more rapidly than the former. A squared or cubic power expresses a growing effect 44 V. Delbecque et al.